Sleek cyberpunk stylings that fluctuate between ethereal atmospheres and amplified emotions are the specialty of writer/producer/synthwave wizard Andrew Tyukasz. The invisible hand behind NETRVNNER’s symphonic interludes expertly generates static fields that breath and pulsate like living creatures. Moving across the icy barrens with the ease of a raven’s shadow, his masterfully poetic instrumental paintings are so radiant one requires snow goggles to gaze directly into them. Busting out of the pandemic holding pattern, the prolific grinder subsequently dropped the turbofied EP Nexus on September 28.
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